Geoinformatik

Mohamed Shibia and colleagues have published a paper that shows how pastoralists on the Borana plateau in southern Ethiopia adapt to fluctuating resource availability. They use GPS collar data from 22 cattle herds over a four-year period to generate more than 16000 daily grazing orbits and classify them into resource use strategies. These are linked to Landsat-based grazing resource unit maps to understand which types of grazing units are targeted by the different use strategies.